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Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Knowledge = Power

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The Origins of the Goddess of Transformation

In Egypt she appears early as the cow-faced goddess of the enclosing horizon, Hathor. Her spouse in this mythology is the Earth, the Earth God, Geb, or Keb. In the Tigris Euphrates area, these cosmic positions are reversed. The male is above as heaven and the female below as the earth. It is within the bounds and embrace of such female personifications of aspects of the being of the universe that all the life and action of both humankind and the gods took place throughout the earliest civilizations.

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